There are four miniseries, comprising 23 books that make up the Sequetus Series. The series starts in 1989, when it first began to be written. The story spans a millennia, and the twenty-three books took 15 years to write. It starts with an intelligence officer from out there, in a distant part of the galaxy, and he is sent to Sequetus 3 (Earth), to find out what is going on. Nothing makes sense here from their point of view out there. Then he has to fix it. Earth is a mess, but someone made it that way, and they had a reason. If he can find out, perhaps he can right it. Perhaps. The first miniseries was all that was originally intended to be written, but the writer became just as engrossed in finding out what is happening on Earth as his characters, so the story continued and continued....